Morgan State University · Maryland

Morgan State Merit Aid

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The merit-aid verdict at Morgan State

Morgan State offers full academic and athletic scholarships along with prestigious named awards for high-achieving students.

Rules that bite at Morgan State

The trip wires we'd flag in a custom playbook. Each is derived from Morgan State's own published policy, not generic advice.

displacementNo published displacement order
Morgan State's policy doesn't specify whether outside scholarships hit loans, grants, or only the COA ceiling. Get a written aid-office answer before chasing private awards.

Who this school is for

High-achieving students with strong academic records should explore Morgan State's institutional awards and named scholarships, which recognize outstanding achievement across multiple disciplines.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $5,815 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Morgan State, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Morgan State, academic year 2021-22 — in-state, Title-IV aid recipients only
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$9,585
$30,001–$48,000	$13,420
$48,001–$75,000	$16,147
$75,001–$110,000	$19,981
$110,001+	$21,323
All income levels (average)	$14,985

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees (in-state), AY 2022-23: $8,229
Published tuition & fees (out-of-state), AY 2022-23: $19,124
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $14,985

That works out to roughly a 41% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $25,413 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Morgan State is a public school; Scorecard's net price figure covers in-state, Title-IV-aid-recipient payers only — there is no comparable federal figure for out-of-state students.

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 41%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 73%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $27,250 (~$289/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $50,698
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 64%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 71%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Morgan State's full student body.
Published tuition is the catalog sticker price for all students, not a Title IV-only figure.
Graduation rate reflects the entire first-time, full-time, degree-seeking cohort — not only students who received Title IV aid.
Retention rate reflects all first-time, full-time, bachelor's-seeking students — not only Title IV aid recipients.
Median debt reflects only completers who took out federal student loans — not Morgan State's full graduating class, and not limited to first-time, full-time students.
Median earnings reflect Title IV aid recipients who entered college and were working (not enrolled) roughly a decade later — not necessarily the graduating cohort, and not a recent graduate's paycheck.
Pell grant and federal loan participation covers first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students only.
Net price blends need-based aid and merit aid together — it is not a merit-specific estimate. It shows what similar-income families actually paid on average after every kind of aid, not what a strong-stats student could win in merit dollars alone. Treat it as cost context, not a merit forecast — a MeritPlaybook models merit aid specifically for your student’s own stats, which this net-price figure cannot do.

None of this is current-year data — the U.S. Department of Education reports it on a delay, and different figures below come from different reporting years. Net price is an academic year 2021-22 figure. Published tuition reflects the 2022-23 academic year. Graduation rate reflects the Fall 2016 entering, full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking cohort; completion measured within 150% of normal time (~6 years for a bachelor's degree). IPEDS Graduation Rates component (C150_4). Retention reflects the Fall 2021 full-time, first-time, bachelor's-seeking cohort retained into the following fall. IPEDS Fall Enrollment component (RET_FT4). Median debt reflects the NSLDS FY2020 and FY2021 pooled completer cohorts (GRAD_DEBT_MDN, GRAD_DEBT_MDN10YR_SUPP). Median earnings reflect the Treasury-matched cohort entering college in AY2009-10 or AY2010-11, earnings measured 10 years later in calendar years 2020 and 2021, inflation-adjusted to 2022 dollars (MD_EARN_WNE_P10).

Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard.

Outside scholarship stacking policy

Students awarded full academic, institutional, or athletic scholarships are not eligible to receive other MSU institutional awards, and students offered multiple full MSU awards must select only one.

Students awarded full academic, institutional, or athletic scholarships are not eligible to receive other MSU institutional awards, and students offered multiple full MSU awards must select only one.

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Lesser-known scholarships at Morgan State

Named awards that don’t always surface on the main financial aid page. Each one has its own eligibility rules.

Martin D Jenkins Scholarship

AmountUp to $500EligibilityThe Martin D. Jenkins Scholarship awards up to the full amount of tuition, fees, approved on-campus room and board, and up to $500 per semester for books, for up to four consecutive years; students must maintain a 3.6 cumulative GPA and the scholarship is considered for incoming freshman applicants only.

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Earl S Richardson Scholarship

AmountUp to $2,000EligibilityThe Earl S. Richardson Scholarship awards up to $2,000 per year for up to three consecutive years, requires students to maintain the Honors College minimum cumulative GPA of 3.4, is considered for continuing and transfer applicants only, and depends on availability of funds.

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Associate Scholarship

AmountUp to $2,000EligibilityThe Honors Associate Scholarship awards up to $2,000 per year for up to four consecutive years, may be applied in addition to other scholarships or grants up to the student's MSU cost of attendance budget, and requires students to maintain a 3.4 cumulative GPA; it is considered for incoming freshman applicants only.

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How Morgan State compares across our verified dataset

135 of 750 verified schools in our dataset use unclear or unpublished displacement.
Morgan State is in a recognizable cluster (135 schools share this category). That framing matters when comparing peer schools that may publish the policy differently or not at all.
135 of 750 verified schools publish no clear displacement order.
Morgan State is one of them. The right move is the aid-office email script below, not a guess.

Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against Morgan State’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

policyMorgan State stacking policy
coaMorgan State cost-of-attendance worksheet
scholarshipMartin D Jenkins Scholarship

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